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Lviv Customs and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection changed the scheme! How officials “milk” importers and block OLVAR cargoes
28 August 2026 year at the Murovane customs post of Lviv Customs, 2 trucks with bananas from the Polish company OLVAR Sp. z o.o. were again blocked. ❗️The perishable goods have already been idle for 2 day under the pretext of “awaiting laboratory test results.”
Previous complaints and public exposure forced the schemers to change tactics, but not the essence. If previously Lviv Customs simply kept reefers under inspection for more than 4 days #Держпродспоживслужба, forcing businesses to burn tons of fuel and suffer million-hryvnia losses, now the customs officers have invented a new “trick.”
Formally, the customs office closes the clearance within the time specified in part 1 of article 255 of the Customs Code of Ukraine 4 hours and reports: “It’s not our fault, don’t file complaints, it’s all the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection!” 🤷♂️However, in practice no truck is allowed through. The Main Department of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in Lviv region takes samples and transports them all the way to Kyiv.
Both agencies act in a coordinated back-office operation covered by the regional prosecutor’s office, the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigations in Lviv, and the Main Department of the Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv region. The aim is banal — to extort kickbacks and “milk” businesses that refuse to resolve issues informally.
📌Customs and phytosanitary legislation clearly separate procedures. Part 10 of article 319 of the CCU and Law of Ukraine No. 2042-VIII regulate the interaction of control bodies, but the mere fact of taking samples does not mean an automatic multi-day seizure of perishable products. To detain goods for 2–5 days, a documented reason is required: an official notice of a hazardous factor or a substantiated suspicion. None of this was provided.
✅We have already sent a new series of complaints and a report of a criminal offense regarding the actions of officials of Lviv Customs, the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, the management of the State Customs Service of Ukraine, and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection of Ukraine.
But that’s not all. Next we will reveal the specific legal provisions violated by the officials and publish the key demands from our official appeals.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Head of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection Tkachuk and regional head Bilyk are destroying foreign business
▫️Serhiy Tkachuk - head of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, under whom import became a profitable scheme
▫️Schemes for blocking cargoes from the EU: food prices rise, partner trust falls
▫️How inspections by the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection led to higher food prices for the population?
▫️Predatory schemes of Lviv customs officers and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection against the EU
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